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  • Discussions about packages which handle caching and proxy functions such as squid, lightsquid, squidGuard, etc.

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    Can I use pgblockerng aliases in Haproxy?

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    If it was a firewall rule, typing pfb would produce a dropdown to select.

    Here it has to be written, but will it work? Is it supported?

  • Discussions about packages whose functions are Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention such as snort, suricata, etc.

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    @bmeeks So after upgrading to the newest PfSense 2.8.0 everything is now working like a charm!

    Suricata no longer seems to strip off tags like it did before! Which means I can now use my network segmented by VLANs and still use the benefits of Suricata Inline IPS! Very niiize!

    I checked in the Alerts section and it is indeed generating the correct alerts from the different VLAN sections, I put Inline IPS on the parent interface of all the VLANs.

    I assume this is because the FreeBSD version is also updated with the new PfSense 2.8.0 version?

    Because before, as soon as I selected Inline IPS mode, my entire VLAN tagging would break and nothing was reachable until I switched back to Legacy mode.

  • Discussions about packages that handle bandwidth and network traffic monitoring functions such as bandwidtd, ntopng, etc.

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    @pulsartiger
    The database name is vnstat.db and its location is under /var/db/vnstat.
    With "Backup Files/Dir" we are able to do backup or also with a cron.

  • Discussions about the pfBlockerNG package

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    @SteveITS ...got it, I should have looked in the docs... I do too use Quad9 and have DNSSEC disabled, so I guess my question is pointless..

    Thank you for all the help.

  • Discussions about Network UPS Tools and APCUPSD packages for pfSense

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    @elvisimprsntr thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try.

  • Discussions about the ACME / Let’s Encrypt package for pfSense

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    @EChondo

    What's your pfSense version ?
    The instructions are shown here :

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    A restart of a service will start by re creating their config files. If a certificate changed, it will get included. When the process starts, it will use the new certificate.

    @EChondo said in Issue with ACME Certificates Refresh & Restarting HAProxy:

    I haven't been able to confirm if the above works(mine just renewed, don't feel like doing it again just to test), so we'll see in 60 days I guess.

    No need to wait x days.
    You can re test / renew right away, as you are 'allowed' to renew a couple (5 max ?) of times per week.

  • Discussions about the FRR Dynamic Routing package on pfSense

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    I had a similar issue with Routed VTI over IPsec recently. FRR lost its neighbors after rebooting or when a tunnel went down. It never re-discovered it automatically. Only restarting FRR (either in GUI or via CLI) brought the neighbors back.

    When I manually added those under the OSPF neighbors tab in the GUI it seems to solve the problem as well.

  • Discussions about the Tailscale package

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    Hello,
    I am unable to get the Tailscale package to work. The page at VPN > Tailscale > Authentication is stuck. It displays the error "Tailscale is not online," but also shows a "Logout and Clean" button, with no option to log in.
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    This state persists even after performing the following troubleshooting steps:

    Rebooting the pfSense router.

    Completely uninstalling and reinstalling the Tailscale package multiple times.

    Clearing browser cache and using a private browser window.

    Toggling the main "Enable Tailscale" checkbox in the settings.

    Checking the logs, which show the service gets a "terminate" signal and shuts down cleanly; it does not crash.

    Manually trying to delete the state file with rm /var/db/tailscale/tailscaled.state, which failed because the file does not exist.

    It appears that the package's configuration is corrupted in a way that persists even after reinstallation. Can anyone advise on how to perform a complete manual cleanup of all Tailscale files and settings?

  • Discussions about WireGuard

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    I've read through some other posts about this, but they either didn't say whether the proposed solution worked or they were very convoluted and difficult to understand. Here is our scenario: We have 6 locations--Las Cruces (LC), Sunland Park (SP), El Paso (EP), Abilene (ABI), Fort Worth (FW), and Plano (PL). LC and ABI have software that is accessed by the other 4 locations via VPN. There are WireGuard VPNs set up between LC and those 4 locations (SP, EP, FW, PL), and ABI and those 4 locations (SP, EP, FW, PL). There is also a WireGuard VPN connection between LC and ABI. LC and ABI have 2 internet connections. SP, EP, FW, and PL each have one internet connection.

    If the primary internet connection goes down at either LC or ABI and failover occurs to the secondary internet connection, is there a way to set up the WireGuard VPN connections so that they also failover without purchasing some 3rd party application?

    Thanks.

  • NTOP - HOW DO I GET HISTORICAL DATA ??

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  • Errors in File Manager…

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    Well that explains it.

    Thanks.

  • Install ziproxy Package

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    Im also getting the same error trying to install wget.

    /root(10): pkg_add -r wget
    Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/wget.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
    pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/wget.tbz' by URL

  • Sudo startup messages

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    jimpJ

    Nothing to "start" per se but it has to sync the sudoers file with the user permissions in the config. Especially on embedded systems post-upgrade.

    I just bumped the sudo pkg with a fix, let me know if it doesn't work.

  • [FIXED] Service Watchdog - cannot detect DHCPv6 relay status

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    All good now, thanks!

    (Will post other issues to the new thread  if required.)

  • Unbound - RFC1918 PTRs vs. Private Address support/Domain Overrides

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    Excellent, all works without any custom config lines now! Thanks!

  • Varnish with missing "if" in pfSense generated vcl

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    I pushed a fix for this - please test it and let me know.

    There is quite a bit to still do on this package :/

  • SNORT and transparent firewall

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    Glad I could help. Snort not working in a transparent bridge is almost guaranteed to be caused by incorrect automatic IP assignments to the variables, just for future google reference.

  • OpenVPN Manager always connects to the 1st config

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    See here for some discussion: https://github.com/jochenwierum/openvpn-manager/issues/17
    OpenVPN Manager needs to use a different management channel for each OpenVPN client that it can control. A default config generated by the client export utility has:

    # open management channel management 127.0.0.1 166

    The 166 needs to be replaced by a different number for each client that is going to be available on the same end-user laptop.
    I will submit pull requests for code to allow this to be specified and put in the client export utility generated configs…

  • Arpwatch not being able to send email notifications

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    @jimp:

    sendmail? No. Never.

    Personally, I'm a "Windows man", so a lot of these pfSense related things are hard for me to know if they are pfSense-spesific or standard for unix based systems.
    Am I right to assume that "sendmail" is a common feature, and thus not a natural part of arpwatch?

    @jimp:

    If you just need to send mail, 2.1 has a CLI program mail.php that will take input from stdin and send it using the configured notification e-mail settings.

    Isn't the problem here that arpwatch doesn't do anything towards notifications?
    I might be on thin ice here, but what I'm trying to achieve is to get some sort of notification each time a new IP is logged in arpwatch.
    If this can be achieved with mail.php, could you give a clue as to how I should proceed to reach my goal?
    (The pfSense notifications have been configured, and test emails (and growls) are arriving as expected.)

  • HAVP - trying to get working on 2.1RC

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    I suppose your choices are HAPV + clamd or dansguardian + clamav.  Haven't tried HAPV because it looked like was going to maybe cause issues with my simple squid setup I run.

    I was using dansguardian + clamav with all the filters except clamav turned off for a while.  I made an alias group of only windows computers on the network and only those were "filtered" through dansguardian, which was only doing AV scanning and no filtering.

    That works, but I eventually turned it off because I have government issue symantec corporate AV solutions that never expire on all the windows machines running on the network, so they were pretty much covered anyway.

  • Bandwidthd database option

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    Super, thanks!

    Just a note regarding the operation, I just pulled2.1-RC1 (i386) built on Wed Aug 21 01:29:33 EDT 2013 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p9after first removing the bandwidthd package out of my older 2.0.3 installation. After working out my RRD issues (something about the database not converting properly, fixed with reset of my old data) I went to the bandwidthd menu to set it up again. Very cool to see the new fields there for database logging! Anyway, unchecking the enable bandwidthd box and clicking save rendered the menu URL```
    /pkg_edit.php?xml=bandwidthd.xml&id=0

    I was able to repeat the problem a couple of times. I don't think this is a big deal, I just prefer to enter all of my settings with the service disabled while I work out all the niggles. arri
  • Proxying over IPSEC

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  • Spamd - says it started, but then says not running

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  • Writing pfSense packages and getting them added

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    jimpJ

    #1 - Not in the public repositories. Nobody else there is doing Java.

    #2 - I work for ESF, the parent company behind pfSense, and we are the official source of pfSense support/consulting. We could assist with developing a package as a part of the usual support hours/time. See the link in my sig.

  • Snort blocking with disabled rule

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    @jflsakfja:

    Ding! Ding! Ding!

    Run from Diagnostics>Command prompt (I've checked the em1 directory, it's correct)

    $ grep 2000419 /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_7104_em1/rules/snort.rules
    (no results so nothing found)

    $ grep 2000419 /usr/local/etc/snort/snort_7104_em1/rules/flowbit-required.rules

    Category: emerging-policy  GID:1  SID:2000419

    alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ET POLICY PE EXE or DLL Windows file download"; flow:established,to_client; file_data; content:"MZ"; within:2; byte_jump:4,58,relative,little; content:"PE|00 00|"; distance:-64; within:4; flowbits:set,ET.http.binary; reference:url,doc.emergingthreats.net/bin/view/Main/2000419; classtype:policy-violation; sid:2000419; rev:17;)

    The rule indeed looks enabled from my point of view

    Thanks for the quick feedback.  This confirms my suspicion.  I will put in a fix for this in the upcoming package update (pkg. 2.6.0).  In the meantime a Suppress List Entry is a viable work around.

    Bill

  • Squid Whitelist Issue

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    Anybody? I started playing around with Untangle and finally got it working. I like it, but the block page is proving harder than I thought to customize. They want you to pay for branding, and the blockpage is over-written with each update to Untangle. I also tried moving to Squid 3 and Squid 3 dev for HTTPS filtering, but I couldn't even get the services to start. I didn't play around with it too much because I wasn't liking the idea of using beta software in production anyway, and I took the services not starting as a sign that I should move on to a stable solution.

  • Postfix relay timout after data

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    Same problem here. We have web server in local network (10.x.x.x) and it uses NAT to get access to internet. Problem is that sending data takes over 180sec and its timed out when it goes thrue pfsense. If I change postfix relayhost to 10.x.x.x network (it does not go thrue pfsense) it works just fine.

    Client mail log:
    Aug 19 21:22:55 nginx postfix/smtp[27134]: ABCDEFHTEOT: to=someone@somewhere.com, relay=mail.server.com[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25, delay=37971, delays=37791/0.01/0.07/180, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (conversation with mail.server.com[xx.xx.xx.xx] timed out while sending message body)

    Mail Server log:
    Aug 19 21:22:55 mail postfix/smtpd[9514]: timeout after DATA (66017 bytes) from unknown[10.x.x.x]
    Aug 19 21:22:55 mail postfix/smtpd[9514]: disconnect from unknown[10.x.x.x]/someone@somewhere.com

  • RRD Mailreport package doesn't send out emails

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    If you set the day of the week to blank it automatically reverts to Sunday.
    Anyway - This HAS worked until a few days ago, even when set to Daily and Sunday.

  • I Cannot access this website Everytime my Lusca is Turned on

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    Thats all I can think of unless there is something unique about the website that hates squid.  Maybe just bypass the site for squid.

    BTW - Why is the loopback interface selected to bind too?

    Why not just the LAN?

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